STELLARIS - WEAPONS EXPLAINED FOR BEGINNERS! 

Instructions unclear, my corvettes have +10% combat ability

What the game was intended: Switch out guided weapon when enemy has point defence. What actually happens :Nah, Just Mass more missiles & fighters to overwhelm them.

I like to combine corvettes with torpedoes and corvettes with swarm missiles. Swarmmis can overwhelm point-defence to protect torps. This tactic is called saturation attack and was used by the soviet navy during cold war

The best weapon is the bravery of our torpedo corvette pilots. And their replacebility

Please make this a series, I’d love a guide on mid/late game pop management and how much to specialise planets.

Res can into space

I made a giant swarm of phased disruptor corvettes with nothing but armor and a can-do attitude. They seemed pretty good against the Contingency.

Very cool to see stellaris content. I started out with stellaris, and then expanded to euiv

Cloud lightning for +50% aesthetics damage

Great video. Nice and simple and clear; a rare thing on you tube!

Hey buddy keep making this type of guide videos for other games like this, stellaris or hoi4 and so on. It seriously helps in playing this game when your fav paradox game(mostly) youtube makes guide in them.

This video was super helpful! Thank you!

When i use missiles I use a combination of swarmers and torpedoes each on different ships. The idea is that the swarm missles plus my fighters can keep point defenses occupied so my torpedos can get though.

Excellent, please Sir can we have more? 😁😁 I hope you researched this from authoritative sources because a clear explanation is nice, but you mentioned some key details missing from most guides. I bought a Stellaris bundle last year and stopped playing because it was too difficult to find clear tutorials. Most are done by famous players who have played so much they forget what catches a beginner out. Frankly I considered making a fresh eye view on learning the game, far more focused without overwhelming detail about DLC and old versions.

Thank you for this.

"Definitive guide to weapons" = "I am by no means an expert."

Strangely good video, can't complain about anything lol. Noice!

HELL YEAH stellaris! I dont play it that much but i really like it and when I see you play, maybe I will be to

For some reason I thought Caspian Report uploaded this video, even though the only thing linking your two channels are maps.

Now, I have a lot of play time and early fleets mix guided, point defence with anti-shield and a 2 anti-armour 1 anti-shield ship. The point is I want to exploit AI failure to counter every weapon type. Also I have specialised fleets, with fast swarms arriving as reinforcements to boost the artillery/carrier fleet as it's screening forces are thinning out. Rapid movement with admirals, light fleets to wage economic warfare whilst avoiding main battle vs doom stacks allows winning the war even if you lose every major battle. Later when I have hangar & cruiser, amoebae flagellae are boss until type III hangar craft are available. The AI likes point defence but not FLAK so high evasion craft can be very effective. Later I do use direct hull, but you need a lot of them and go arc emitter, proton launcher with a little long range null void beam to make the proton launchers more effective. You must go all in anti-hull, the high damage soon removes some ships, whilst good evasion, shields and armour keep your fleet at near full damage output. If the AI does refit to go for tanky crystal reinforced hulls dropping armour and shield, it's very expensive to do but then you simply refit vis upgrade to a more mainstream weapons layout which has bonus v hull. A major concern for me is the AE and crisis ships, so I like to be able to deploy hangar, long range but a second wave of fast swarm of evasive CTs. That allows long range units increased fire rate, but in the main battle high evasion craft and CT do massive damage with fresh craft. That reduces ship losses and the sheer speed of the rapid fleets without cruisers or heavier ships increases the chances of catching an enemy fleet with reinforcements whilst engaged with a heavy long range with point defence fleet. The long range fleets are good for taking out bases with zero losses. In main battle, mostly their CT/DD are lost but they are cheap to replace. Of course late game facing spinal mounts, you will lose cruisers and battleships in key battles, so going into war with resource stockpiles allows rapid replacement and wear down the AE or crisis faction, whilst you uptech and build specialised counters to the known enemy.

Man, I learned EUIV through Stellaris!

Hey um... what fleet design are you using? because your ships look really good!

I really like Arc Emitters just for the small one-shot chance.

Glad you're covering Stellaris. I've not been liking what all these mechanic overhauls have been doing to EU IV.

Help! Stuck in boarding Cultist Ship . . .LMAO! How to research it?

Any videos on defense platforms?

I would leave an extra like for Takayan Lance, if i could!!! 👍👍

I always thought swarmers put out extra missiles per volley, so enough could overload the AA.

Dont know bout you guys, but i use a combination of Laser and Kinetic early and later change them to Plasma and Kinetics

What mods do you use?

Starting stellaris?

*presses Auto-Best button* ... Yep, perfect strategy B)

How about rockets? There is no good explanation anywhere except, a-a-a point defense.

pd is actually pretty trash. 1 pd slot can only counter 1 missile slot and putting pd on ships reduces their dmg output so significantly that its not worh it. such fleets still lose overall, it just takes a little longer. same with strikecraft but its a ecen harder L cause yozu need about 3 flaks for 1 hangar. as much as i like my fully outfited ships, its way better to leave the pd slots empty.

Stopped watching as soon as I heard the name "League of Legends"